Studio Pictures Ltd is a UK-based film and TV production company founded by producers Adam Rolston and David Braithwaite in 2019. Specializing in creating high-quality British entertainment content, the company focuses on adapting books to screen and telling unique true-life stories that entertain and inspire both domestic and international audiences. With successful productions like "A Street Cat Named Bob," the company is building a strong brand and reputation in the industry. Studio Pictures has access to top creative talent and collaborates with major studios like Warner Bros, Sony Pictures, Lionsgate, and Studio Canal. The company is located at Twickenham Studios in Richmond, UK.
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Endurance Sports TV (ESTV) is a portal that focuses on events like live racing, race reports, athlete biographies and documentaries. It aims to deliver engaging high-quality content via a Subscription-Video-On-Demand (SVOD) service available via web, mobile and TV mediums (Apple, Android, Firestick, Roku and Chromecast). ESTV has 81 million endurance sports fans and participants globally. The company’s app has seen more than 5000 downloads in over 100 countries. The platform also offers advertisement-free curated viewing to its viewers. ESTV has curated over 600 sports videos since 2019. The company will use the investment to focus on making video content broadcasting special features with global sports talent and covering top events. It will also use its PR & marketing teams to reach out to sports journalists and utilise social media channels to connect with fans and participants everywhere.
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£82,220
Clooper is a property management platform. The company argues that 86% of private landlords in the UK manage their properties themselves, with many finding it time-consuming and stressful. Clooper seeks to solve this problem with a property management platform that connects landlords, tenants, trade services, and homeowners to facilitate easy transactions between them. It aims to be a significant contender in the £11 billion property management platform. The company points out that Paul Rothwell of Empire, a large residential landlord in England, has pledged £200,000 of investment to the company. Clooper aims to make move-ins quicker, repairs faster, and payments easier in the wake of Covid-19 which is fuelling the adoption of online services in the UK. The company will use the investment to hire key recruits, operationalise mobile apps, boost marketing, and enhance sales and operations.
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£409,847
True Royalty Television is the first and only established TV channel serving the global millions of Royal super-fans, with 20,000 paying subscribers already on its platform. The British Royal Family is the 4th biggest brand in the world. With 350+ hours of top quality Royal content, refreshed monthly and with exclusive commissions, True Royalty curates relevant titles according to Royal news and the viewer's interest areas—British Royals, World Royals, and Royalty through history. There are 25 million people in the US alone who identify as both active Royal fans and who stream on-demand TV, up almost 300% from 8.6 million in 2018. The founders of the channel have assembled a diverse team of proven experts in TV production and distribution, digital marketing, PR, and brand partnerships from around the world. With the investment, the channel has identified partners for further growth opportunities including launching beyond the current US, Canada, Australia, NZ, UK & Ireland into India, Europe, the Middle East, and the Far East demographics.
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£2,148,699
WeVee is a platform that brings Electric Vehicles (EVs) into one place so that potential customers can browse across different models and makes, compare them, get relevant pricing, and configure a leasing plan, with the help of reliable EV experts. The company asserts that its pricing configurator pulls from some of the UK's top lenders such as Lex Autolease, LeasePlan, Arval UK, and ALD Automotive, using Application Programming Interface (API's) to show the best price for each lease configuration. WeVee argues that over 800 vehicles have been ordered on its portal to date. It has also earned £830,000 worth of revenue since launch and garnered 350+ 5-star Trustpilot reviews. WeVee will use the investment for technology development, marketing, contingency purposes, towards paying its tech, leadership, marketing, and operations teams, and upgrades to its IT hardware.
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Expired
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£1,602,196
paus is an on-demand streaming service. It offers specialist, hand-picked independent films to today's streamers who wish to avail a niche streaming service in 2020. The company aims to propel curated independent cinema into the $161 billion global streaming market by replacing conventional subscription and ad-based models with a peer-to-peer digital tipping model. paus is working with globally recognised film institutions to procure curated content. Over 1,900 people have signed up for early access to its iOS app. The company is currently rolling out a beta iOS version in the UK and US. It will use the investment to move into streaming theatre and web-series on its portal.
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Expired
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£352,724
Active Needle Technology offers an award-winning "needle actuating device" which has high value medical and consumer applications. The company's patent-pending proprietary ultrasonic technology enhances visibility for medical needles in applications such as biopsy, in regional and joint anaesthesia and others. The company aims to commercialise its technology into a $4+ billion special purpose needle market. After identifying obvious commercial advantages in the tattoo market, Active Needle plans to use its ultrasonic needle technology to develop a low-pain tattooing system. Moreover, the company has won an Innovate UK grant to develop and test the tattoo device. With the proceeds, the company will complete CE marking for its initial biopsy device, for development of anaesthesia and tattooing products.
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Expired
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£194,100
Over the past 8 years, Advatech Healthcare has created Hippo, a proven disabled and non-emergency patients transportation services (NEPTS) in the Essex area. Due to its dependability and efficiency, Hippo is now poised to become the UK's best national wheelchair accessible healthcare services on a wearable technology platform. According to the Office for Technology Statistics data, there are 13.37 million people disabled in the UK who lack dedicated non-emergency transportation. Hippo could save the National Health Service (NHS) up to 60% on transportation costs increasing faster hospital bed rotation and providing dedicated transportation for disabled and non-emergency patients with a medically trained staff. It also offers medical and technological necessities not offered by many leading operators. Currently, the company operates within the Essex area. By the end of 2020, the company aims to commence seven new contracts it has signed with the NHS. It also signed a deal with Cambridge Adult Social Care that is expected to close, within a 5-year term and generate over £200,000 per year.
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Evaclite manufactures dynamic exit signs designed to make buildings safer and save lives. The company argues that its products are 77% more visible than conventional exit signs and reduces congestion at exits by 36%. The company received the 2018 FIREX - Fire Innovation of the Year Award. It also won the Safety and Health Excellence (SHE) Award in 2019 and 2020. Evaclite counts companies like Apple, CBRE, BBC, Melia, and MetroBank amongst its clients. The company has inquiries from over a dozen countries globally with a 12-month sales opportunity pipeline of over £1.5 million. It will use 60% of the investment to build its sales team, 28% to boost its inbound marketing campaign, 7% to develop additional intellectual property, and 5% towards overhead and general costs.
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Expired
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£148,736
Luas Diagnostics (LD) aims to develop and market easy-to-use, rapid and accurate diagnostics tests with the aim of deploying these tests in remote settings away from centralised testing laboratories. The company has signed an exclusive distribution agreement with Chembio Diagnostics Systems (CDS) in the USA to market its Covid-19 antibody and antigen tests in the UK and Ireland. It has also signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the University of Birmingham to develop saliva-based, rapid Covid-19 tests. LD is also working on coming up with a therapeutic drug monitoring system based on the same technology used worldwide to test people with diabetes for glucose levels in the blood. The company is developing the system so that it can be used at home, in pharmacies or GP surgery. The first product will test for Theophylline which is used to treat Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD). LD will use the investment to grow its business across different verticals.
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Expired
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£326,190
